The Specials

I met my love by the gaswork croft

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

Kissed my girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town

I heard a siren from the dock

Saw a train set the night on fire

Smelled the spring on the sulfured wind

Dirty old town, whoa-oh

Dirty old town

We're goin' to take a good sharp axe

Shining steel tempered in the fire

And we'll chop you down like an old dead tree

Dirty old town

Dirty old town, whoa-oh

Dirty old town

And oh we'll chop you down

Oh, dirty, dirty, dirty old town

Dirty old town, dirty old town

And oh whoa-oh dirty old town

Chop you down one of these days

Comments

8 years ago

Megallyon Princip

Посмотрите это видео на YouTube:

9 years ago

martin flaherty

Mr Macoll would be proud !!!!!!

9 years ago

kevin mc

Salford lad me,this is about the old gas works on regent road ,Liverpool st,next to ordsall great memorys

9 years ago

Lyall Arnold

MAN THIS IS AWESOME .the specials were special............WHAT A COVER...............

9 years ago

Ben Gretka

do they mix the bass to sound like that or is it an effect

9 years ago

pfg333

The only connection this song has to Ireland is that two irish bands have done cover versions.

9 years ago

Dick C. Normous

Nothing like a sunny day in Dublin

9 years ago

LittleErnieWise

Words cannot describe how bad this version is.

9 years ago

katoness

WTF where The Specials thinking?? Dreadful

9 years ago

Thomas Duris

If you think about it Ewan Maccoll has a famous daughter kirsty maccoll who so happens sang in fairy tails of new York way Sean...

9 years ago

shadeshooters

Strange song is based around salford/manchester area but the pic on screen is spon end coventry

9 years ago

R Carne 1999

The song was written in reference to Salford, then in Lancashire, England, the town where MacColl was born and brought up. It was originally composed for an interlude to cover an awkward scene change in Ewan MacColl's Salford-set, 1949 play Landscape with Chimneys,[1] but with the growing popularity of folk music the song became a standard. The first verse referred to the Gasworks croft, which was a piece of open land adjacent to the Gasworks 53°28′50″N 2°16′36″W, and then speaks of the old canal, which was the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal

9 years ago

LOVEDAVEGAHAN

This is actually The Specials Mark 2, which included Roddy Byers, Neville Staple, Horace Panter and Lynval Golding from the original Specials.

10 years ago

Regan Coultas

does shane approve? why the fuck wouldn't he?

10 years ago

tetraskelion

Cool rendition.....

10 years ago

Thunder Heart

Hide away and shut up!!!!!

10 years ago

Thomas Duff

your a prick. its by THE DUBLINERS! KNOB.

10 years ago

willie fae Ayr

Cheers for the Easy Club version,brilliant and is leading me to other good stuff.that footage is a film which i saw on a Smiths docu recently .so worth seeking out,ta

10 years ago

Kevin Brown

But the Easy Club version is better than anyones!

10 years ago

Gary Mandley

This isn't The Specials......

The Specials - Dirty Old Town video free download

Comments

Megallyon Princip

martin flaherty

kevin mc

Lyall Arnold

Ben Gretka

pfg333

Dick C. Normous

LittleErnieWise

katoness

Thomas Duris

shadeshooters

R Carne 1999

LOVEDAVEGAHAN

Regan Coultas

tetraskelion

Thunder Heart

Thomas Duff

willie fae Ayr

Kevin Brown

Gary Mandley

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